About the Author:Professor Barry Rubin is director of the Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center and editor of the Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA) Journal. See the GLORIA/MERIA site at www.gloria-center.org.

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I've been pointing out President Obama's personal foreign policy agenda since early in his first term, but that doesn't mean I think any other potential president would have fared any better. They have those same blinders. You can't listen to what they tell you to get elected. You must read the small print. Very few Americans in general are not hidebound in their own life fantasy, very few have the desire to dialogue. Even on this site, if you read the comments, with few exceptions it is just people spouting off.

The facts are that Iraq has been a fractured mess since the US invasion, Ben Ali was no asset, Mubarak was no friend, Ghadafi was one of the most evil rulers of the past half century, and that there may not be any good guys in Syria (at least none with any power). Obama had the foresight to realize that Mubarak was not going to live forever and to side with the good guys in Libya. And in fact, Morsi has actually been better — so far — than Mubarak in numerous respects (something I would have never believed possible).

This is a clear analysis of the long-standing prevalence of USAmerican subjugation to Islamist threat. Should this all not be US' diverting tactics to the world? He, with Muslim Oba. flirting (he thinks he is still on the sly) with enemies of the world, compatible blood attracts its kind. Where to, world? Look up, your help is from ABOVE.